Miami, FL, USA
On January 7, 2005, sphere like objects were noticed in digital pics during photo session of Comet Macholz.
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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- Duration parsed: 3s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (107 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-01-07
- Where
- Miami, FL, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- MOMENTARY
- Geo
- 25.774, -80.194 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-miami-fl-2005-99b884
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Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
Local cluster
4 reports came out of Miami, FL in January 2005 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Miami, FL has 340 sightings on file here.
- 2005 brought 244 reports from Florida.
- The 2000s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
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